Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Major-General Thomas J. Jackson to Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, May 19, 1862

Near Harrisonburg, May 19th.

. . . How I do desire to see our country free and at peace! It appears to me that I would appreciate home more than I have ever done before. Here I am sitting in the open air, writing on my knee for want of a table. . . . Yesterday Dr. Dabney preached an excellent sermon from the text: “Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” It is a great privilege to have him with me.

SOURCE: Mary Anna Jackson, Life and Letters of General Thomas J. Jackson (Stonewall Jackson), p. 257-8

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